Hey Jason, the best way to find these distressed properties (off-market deals), you have to either do it yourself, which is a full-time job calling and building relationships with these cold sellers, or find investor-friendly agents/wholesalers sourcing these deals for you.

You are better off hiring a coach when you are in a position where you understand what your weaknesses are and you need to tackle those to be able to scale your operation.

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They tend to focus primarily on self-employed, operating businesses, so their understanding of self-employed borrowers will tend to be better.

My husband is leaving his old job so we’re looking to rollover his retirement.

Most of the advice I'm seeing online focuses on apartment buildings but I'm not attracted to raising rent as a strategy and managing tenants & toilets as a job.

its incremental depending on your renters our area is more concred with leed 140 compliance in buildings so i dont buy anything older than 1985 without a budget to convert the property. currently we have 100% occupancy in a high income area so having these amenities is critial for new buildings without enough Power for in Garage Car charging people with jobs and new Teslas wont rent. https://www.globest.com/2021/0... 

By accelerating your depreciation schedules, you reduce your taxable income which in turn increases your operating cash flow.

Nice job!

In this field, inspectors tend to remember the guy who proceeded with the job but didn't get the building permit.